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[Mike McCarty]

Robert Locke wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:16 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
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>The goal in "hardening" a Linux box is always to try to figure out the
>different ways that someone may try to inject code to execute on your
>machine to grant them a) access, b) privilege, c) your data, or d) your
>cycles.....  Best bet for you is probably to do some google'ing or pick
>up an O'Reilly book or two on Security to assess some of the more common
>exploitable areas.  Look for topics on "hardening Linux".  That will
>keep you busy for quite some time.... :-)
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Amusingly, Google turned up several hits on "+linux +security", the first of
which is "Security is Microsoft's number one priority".

Mike

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